Constitutional structure and statistical aspects of society -- The first estate: the prelates -- The second and third estates: the nobility -- The fourth estate: the Burghers of the towns and the mining cities -- The peasantry -- The structure of government and the foci of power -- Institutions of the central government of royal Hungary -- Military affairs -- The counties -- Church affairs -- The emerging crisis in feudal society and agriculture -- The Hungarian intellectual revival in 1790 -- The feudal revolt against enlightened despotism -- The court and the Burghers -- Peasant unrest and agitation -- Countercoup and compromise.